So annoying! The high-speed limit is 120km/h, the front car is hard to drive 70km/h, and it also occupies the fast lane, and you can't overtake him, because next to it is a long solid line.
Flashing him with a headlight, the intention was to remind him to hurry, but the other party thought that this was a serious offense, not only ignored, but the speed of the car was slower. How could that be!
In this situation, everyone will be angry, but there is nothing they can do.
Because it's really hard, you're not sure if the car in front of you will suddenly brake and rear-end, or whether you are fully responsible.
It is said that bear with the wind and waves for a while, take a step back from the sea and the sky. But this is not an isolated case, there are too many slow cars on the highway.
The more people driving slow cars, the more people who are forced to change lanes, the more people who change lanes and plug up, and the more chaotic the road. The leftmost fast lane becomes a slow lane, and the rightmost slow lane becomes a fast lane, a passing lane...
Many people are misled by the phrase "nine times fast in ten accidents" and think that when driving on the highway, it is time to drive slowly. You can drive a slow car ≠ safe driving, if the speed of the vehicle in front is too low, it is very easy to have a rear-end accident.
According to the statistics of the traffic management department, the traffic accidents caused by slow driving account for more than 35% of the total number of accidents.
At about 20:00 on April 1, 2021, a rear-end accident occurred in the Juzhou Hub section of the A line of the Xiamen Rong Expressway, and both vehicles were damaged to varying degrees. After investigation by the traffic police, the driver of the car in front of him drove slowly to check the signs. The accident caused the accident to be caused by the failure of the normal vehicle in the rear to dodge.
More than a year ago, DearAuto shouted loudly, hoping that the relevant departments will introduce measures as soon as possible to rectify more and more serious ultra-low-speed illegal traffic behaviors, so that our high speed can really "high-speed", improve road traffic efficiency, and make driving safer.
Happily, turtle speed driving "finally opened the penalty"!
The newly revised Measures for the Administration of Scoring of Road Traffic Safety Violations by the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China came into effect on 1 April 2022. The biggest change in the new rules is that the penalties for speeding violations of motor vehicles have been reduced, and for the first time, it is clear that driving below the minimum speed limit on highways or urban expressways will face a penalty of 3 points.
In the previous traffic laws, only the illegal behavior of speeding made clear penalties, but there was no corresponding penalty standard for the behavior of driving slow cars, so some drivers had no fear, turning the highway into a low-speed highway and driving a fast lane into a slow lane.
After the introduction of the new regulations, the majority of drivers have clapped their hands and applauded. However, we feel that only deducting 3 points without fines, only for highways and expressways and not for ordinary roads, such penalties may not be enough!
According to the 2021 China Urban Commuting Monitoring Report, more than 10 million people in 36 key cities across the country are suffering from an extreme commute of more than 60 minutes.
As a megacity, Guangzhou has an average commuting distance of 8.7 kilometers and an average commuting time of 38 minutes. 14% of Guangzhou commuters are struggling with more than 60 minutes of commute, with Beijing and Shanghai even worse.
The root cause of the long commute time is, of course, the large number of cars, but the inefficient road traffic caused by human-induced traffic is also an important reason that cannot be ignored.
If everyone starts faster, a green light can originally pass 30 cars, but because some people start slowly, they may only be able to pass 15 cars, that is, the traffic efficiency of this intersection is reduced by half!
According to the "2021 Guangzhou Statistical Yearbook" issued by the Guangzhou Bureau of Statistics, the annual salary of non-private employees in urban non-private units in the city 135138 yuan, which is converted down to an average hourly wage of 64.72 yuan. If the commuting time is 15 minutes in each province, each person can save 32.36 yuan per day.
Because there is no "minimum speed limit" on ordinary urban roads, the phenomenon of "turtle speed driving" is more common than that of highways, and the negative impact may be greater, so there should also be corrective measures and methods for the "turtle speed driving" of ordinary roads.
Time is money, efficiency is life!
The cost of highways per kilometer is several times that of ordinary highways, why does the state spend so much money to repair them? Because highway traffic is more efficient. However, a large number of traffic violations of "turtle speed" driving have caused the strange phenomenon that the highway is not high-speed.
According to data from the Ministry of Transport, in june and july 2020, the total flow of highways in the country was 1.7 billion times, and the average speed of highway vehicles in 26 provinces across the country was only 71km/h, of which 84km/h were passenger cars and 55km/h were trucks.
If the average speed of these 1.7 billion vehicles is increased from 71km/h to 81km/h, the social benefits are amazing!
At present, China's road infrastructure hardware is not inferior to developed countries in Europe and the United States, but our road traffic efficiency is still far behind, which directly leads to a direct result that logistics costs account for a significantly higher proportion of GDP. In 2021, the proportion of mainland logistics costs in GDP will be 14.6%, compared with less than 10% in developed countries.
If the proportion of mainland logistics costs in GDP can be reduced by 0.1%, it can bring more than 50 billion yuan of economic benefits, if it can be reduced to the same level in developed countries, the annual cost savings will reach an astonishing 2.3 trillion yuan!
There is not only a maximum speed limit on the highway, but also a minimum speed limit, speeding will deduct points, fines, below the minimum speed limit should also be deducted points, fines, only in this way, can some drivers who lack public morality change the bad problem of occupying the fast lane slowly.
Compared with speeding, we hate turtle speed driving more, because speeding deducts your points, the penalty is your money, and your speeding behavior has little impact on others - of course, except for drag racing behavior that endangers public safety, but "turtle speed driving" affects almost everyone on the road, every car.
The new traffic regulations have improved the tolerance for speeding (no penalty for exceeding 20% or less), and have begun to impose penalties for low-speed driving, which also proves from one side that turtle speed driving is more harmful to society than general speeding driving!
Write at the end
For driving behavior below the minimum speed limit, the country has long been in a state of "lawlessness" and "lax law enforcement", and now it is finally clear to punish, but it is probably not enough to deduct points, to correct the long-term formation of many drivers "slowly open not illegal" wrong cognition, it may be necessary to increase a little punishment, just like the treatment of drunk driving, if only stay in the deduction of points, fines, I am afraid it is difficult to achieve such an effect now.
Many people lament that foreign drivers are more disciplined, which has nothing to do with quality, but the result of long-term strict law enforcement, a fine is often hundreds of dollars, and after eating several losses, it is naturally honest.
Therefore, for the "turtle speed" driving violations on the highway, not only should points be deducted, but also fines should be imposed, at least the same as the intensity of the speeding fine, so that those who are accustomed to driving slow cars can have a long memory and change their faults.
Finally, do a survey, which of the following low-speed driving behaviors annoys you the most? (Single Choice)
Text | Li Jianbo
(This article is the author's personal opinion only and does not represent the position of DearAuto.) )
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Mr. Li Guoyong of Guangdong Green Law Firm